I've upgraded from Fedora 1 to Fedora 2 on this device and have had many problems apparently because modules.conf wasn't properly updated and I've had to figure it all out item by item. I've managed to get my NIC, wireless and mice working. I'm now working on sound. I've figured out that

modprobe snd-intel8x0

will load (some of?) the right modules. And I can get sound applications to work as root, but not
as a user; for example alsamixer produces

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied

But the problem is *not* the permissions on /dev/mixer etc. Even at 777, users can't use sound applications but root can. Am I missing something else in my modules.conf?

path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates
# default path
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
options ide-cd dma=1
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 ipw2100